By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as `the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations` - Andrew O`Hagan. Harvey Weinstein`s film is to be released in the UK on 8 January 2010 with an all-star cast including Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall, and introducing major new young talent, Kodi Smit McPhee, with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. `A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away` - Tom Gatti, "The Times". `So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent` - Niall Griffiths, "Daily Telegraph". `You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here` - Alan Warner, "Guardian".